![]() A boat came out opposite the harbor but it was so rough that she could not come in. Perhaps you would like to know what I had for new years dinner It was rice & molasses. Last night our band played the old year out and the new year in although it rained hard. ![]() Today the colored people hear had quite a time they had a platform fixed up In the park and had our chaplain and the 24th and the minester that Is teaching them to deliver speaches and had two brass bands our and the 24th after the speaking was over they went up stairs in the court house where they had a big dinner. It is new years day and I am on convalessance camp guard. For the next several months we will be sharing these letters as they were written over 150 years ago. Peck wrote letters home during his stay with the 10 th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, and his great grandson, Christopher Peck, shared those letters with us. ![]() Private Elias Sherwood Peck, of Greenwich Connecticut can help us answer that question. What was life like during the American Civil War at Fort Marion in St. Image courtesy of Christopher Peck January 1, 1864
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